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Batman: Year One (2011)
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010)
The Glass Menagerie (2010)
Southland (2009-2010)
Sin Bin (2010)
The Eight Percent (2009)
Johnny Got His Gun (2008)Ben at the party for the opening night performance of “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams at the Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum on September 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
Opening Night Of “The Glass Menagerie” – September 12, 2010
Ben with co-star Keira Keeley, Patch Darragh and Judith Ivey in Tennessee Williams’ haunting memory play The Glass Menagerie. The Long Wharf Theatre production began previews on September 1 and opens September 12 with performances continuing through October 17, at LA’s Mark Taper Forum. Ben plays the Gentleman Caller Jim O’Connor.
Pick up tickets to one of The Glass Menagerie shows at CenterTheatreGroup.org
source: Just Jared
From: broadway.com
Ben McKenzie, best known for his roles in TV’s The O.C. (as troubled teen Ryan Atwood) and Southland, will join Judith Ivey in the forthcoming Los Angeles production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. McKenzie will play Jim O’Connor, the so-called “Gentleman Caller,” opposite Ivey as Amanda Wingfield, Keira Keeley as Laura Wingfield and Patch Darragh as Tom Wingfield. Performances are set to begin at the Mark Taper Forum on September 1 for a limited engagement through October 17. Opening night is September 12, directed by Gordon Edelstein.
Ivey, Keeley and Darragh first co-starred in the Tennessee Williams classic in May 2009 at the Long Wharf Theatre, with The Good Wife star Josh Charles as the Gentleman Caller. Edelstein’s production then won raves in an off-Broadway mounting produced by Roundabout Theatre Company in March 2010, with Michael Mosley as Jim.
Before finding fame on TV, McKenzie appeared in Life Is a Dream at SoHo Rep and in plays such as Street Scene and The Blue Bird at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan, he is the nephew of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle).
DONATE OR REQUEST A DVD
Each year, thousands high school students read Dalton Trumbo’s National Book Award-winning novel, Johnny Got His Gun, as part of their English Literature, Social Studies, and Political Science classes.
Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, starring Ben McKenzie (Southland, The O.C., Junebug), was originally conceived to enhance those studies, as well as courses in Film, Theater Arts, Nursing, and Acting.
While we were honored to have our small independent film picked up for distribution in art house cinemas, our goal has always been to have a copy of this movie distributed to every high school library in the country.
THE NEED
At a time when most schools no longer offer basic Civics courses, Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun offers a perspective beyond the video games and multimedia images which bombard students and all too often depersonalize the human aspect of war.
Included with the film are a pre-screening and a post-screening discussion guide, which offer educators an opportunity to explore and discuss with their students many of Trumbo’s themes.
Sadly, many school districts today no longer have the financial resources to purchase educational DVDs, which come with the necessary ‘Public Performance Rights’ licenses that enable teachers to screen them in the classroom. And even though Johnny is priced well below the average cost of such educational videos, it remains out of reach for many schools.
THE SOLUTION
Greenwood Hill Productions is working to match each high school library in the country with a donor willing to purchase a copy of the film for them.
These DVDs are a teaching tool which can be utilized by educators across multiple curriculums, as noted above.
Furthermore, each video comes with the legally required Public Performance Rights license, which allows teachers to show the film year after year, for the lifetime of the DVD.
Finally, a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each DVD go to the Fallen Patriot Fund to help veterans and their families.
Go to the film’s website and request a copy for your school
From the movie’s blog:
This was the Sin Bin set Friday night into Saturday morning. It was a night shoot—6 p.m. to 6 a.m.—inside Happy Foods, a grocery store in Chicago’s Edgebrook neighborhood. The actors (or talent as they’re called) working that night were Ben McKenzie, Gillian Jacobs, Brian Petsos, Chicago’s own Brad Morris (of Second City fame), Michael Seater, and Brenda Marie King.
From the movie’s blog:
It’s 4:24 in the morning–do you know where your Sin Bin crew is?
They’re still shooting scenes with Ben McKenzie, Gillian Jacobs, Brian Petsos, Brad Morris (an actor from Chicago’s Second City), Michael Seater, and Brenda Marie King, in and near Happy Foods, a Chicago grocery store.
Here’s a pic of McKenzie, Jacobs, Petsos, and Morris holding a pack of Everwood condoms–a faux brand of rubbers made specially for Sin Bin. They’re standing in aisle 4 of Happy Foods.
